Word: splitting
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Montenegro voted last week to split from Serbia, ending the last union between states of the former Yugoslavia. Nationalists in the Balkan republic (celebrating at left), which hopes to join the European Union, aren't alone in their secessionist spirit. Here are six other territories with aspirations to join the countries club...
...often hungry, Congolese units have taken to looting and pillaging the people they are meant to protect. In early May, Congolese troops in Ituri in the northeast forced at least 4,500 refugees out of a camp because they suspected militia fighters were sheltering there. Some Congolese units have split back into their rebel and ethnic parts and turned on one another. The upsurge in rapes, killings and torture by Congo's security forces has become so serious that the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo is debating whether to end its cooperation with the police and army altogether...
...vital exposure to an important field of inquiry. At the opposite extreme, Harvard could re-create an independent school, separate from FAS and the College (an autonomous undergraduate Harvard Engineering School existed here from 1919 until the late 1940s and the creation of DEAS), but doing so would split. Harvard’s undergraduate population in a way that would run contrary to the colorful character of a liberal arts institution. Engineering could become a five-year program, with more time for exploration to complement the field’s hefty requirements. But Harvard would then lose the collegiality that...
...assistant professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the senior author of the Nature paper. A comparison of the DNA sequences of humans and chimps revealed that the complete divergence of the two species took over four million years, Reich said. The evidence indicated that the decisive split between humans and chimpanzees “must have occurred more recently than 6.3 million years, and probably [even] more recently than 5.4 million years,” Reich said. These figures differ from previous estimates that the human-chimp split occurred 6.5 to 7.4 million years ago, a figure that...
...Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it?s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence?s official biography calls him ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order...